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AugustWest

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  • Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online

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  • A good point. Though I was surprised to read this particular dissident only got 5 years in prison and exile from Beijing.

  • Looney Tunes inspired

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  • Since 2015 when it was first posted.

  • MTG plans to oust Mike Johnson before leaving Congress, report says

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  • I doesn’t matter how dumb the Republican is, the art of the grift is instinctual.

  • ‘LYRICS’ [OC]

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  • Jack Daniels no 7 is crap. Some of their other offerings are fantastic, but they are also more like $70 per bottle.

    There is plenty of other whiskey in the same price range as no 7 that isn’t a disgusting mess of sugar and paint thinner. Wild Turkey 101, Buffalo Trace, etc.

  • ‘LYRICS’ [OC]

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  • AirBNB is a blight, and anyone who uses AirBNBs – particularly in urban areas – should be ashamed of themselves.

  • dress to empress

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  • I think you mean the Blues Brothers

  • That walk with the cousins

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  • That walk with the cousins

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  • I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating

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  • It’s not a hard rule unless you’re using a hard format like Chicago, MLA, or APA format. In the US it’s common to not use spaces, but in the UK and some parts of Europe it’s common to use spaces for em dashes and en dashes if they are being used to denote parentheticals.

    Edit: I just noticed this article is hosted on HuffPost UK. If you go look at the US version of the site, it uses em dashes. In the UK it is becoming common to use en dashes in place of em dashes for parentheticals. Though even in the US version there are spaces, so it’s still not a clean comparison.

  • I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating

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  • This quote is particularly amusing because the author used en dashes where he should have used em dashes, while making a point about how no one uses em dashes.

  • Top MAGA influencers accidentally unmasked as foreign actors

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  • Shocked, even.

  • The Next Version of WINDOWS - CatTrigger

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  • Thanks for the context. Though I am going to have to take another look at this when I am more sober.

  • The Next Version of WINDOWS - CatTrigger

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  • Gotcha, I guess I have just never seen the usual meme. SickOS is a thing though, it’s a pentesting practice tool, a purposefully vulnerable system to practice skills on.

  • The Next Version of WINDOWS - CatTrigger

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  • Sorry to ruin the joke, but could you explain? I know what SickOS is on the surface, but don’t really get this.

  • Batman

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  • They are common in wetland areas with heavy mosquito population. Encouraging an active bat population is an extremely effective way to control mosquitos. They come flying out of these bat houses at dusk and gorge themselves.

    One of the largest bat houses in the country is at Spirit of Suwannee Music Park, a music festival venue in the wetlands of north Florida built right on the Suwannee River. Obviously insanely fertile ground for mosquitos, but this bat houses holds 30,000-50,000 bats which keep the mosquitos under control. It’s an insane sight, watching them all pour out of there for like 5 minutes straight right at dusk every night.

    Check this out

  • Feynman rules

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  • That’s some wishful thinking that humans will be around then.

  • This is literally me

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  • It’s basically just a programming language based on and inclusive of JavaScript, but with extra features.

  • Maldives becomes the first country to impose a generational ban on smoking

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  • Yes, it won’t work. But tobacco use in the Maldives has apparently not followed the trend of the rest of the world since the 50s. From the article:

    Smoking is especially prevalent among young people, with nearly half of those ages 13 to 15 consuming some form of tobacco.

    Half is insane.